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		tsimionescu on April 3, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Man who thought opening a TXT file is fine thought... This is only a Unix vs Windows thing in terms of the application launcher and how it is implemented. File extensions are semantically meaningful for many unix tools, most notably gcc.

kergonath on April 3, 2021 [–]

Also meaningless for vastly more UNIX tools. Also, Gnu’s not UNIX.

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